I have unchecked the option ProFTPD virtual FTP in Features and Plugins but FTP is still working. How?

[sanjeevone]

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version	Ubuntu 22.04
Webmin version	Latest
Virtualmin version	Latest
Related packages	Virtualmin

I have unchecked the option ProFTPD virtual FTP in Features and Plugins in virtualmin but FTP is still working. How?. Is “ProFTPD virtual FTP” something different. And is “ProFTPD” is the same software responsible for working of regular FTP. Then what is “ProFTPD virtual FTP” option is it other software.

[Randomz]

It’s actually if you have available IP and want to have a separate IP for each domain to use FTP. Most (all?) people won’t use this.

See here.

how2 setup individual virtual ftp site per domain

Virtual FTP requires an IP per domain, and there is an option for it in the Create Domain form in the Enabled Features section (labeled "Setup IP-based virtual FTP?"). Anonymous access will probably require some tweaking to have it work the way you want. You’d probably want to use the group to allow users of the virtual server access to the outgoing directory.

[Joe]

That feature is simply not what you think it is. “Virtual FTP” means devote one IP to each domain. Almost no one should enable that feature (honestly, today, I think it’s literally no one that should enable it…ProFTPd has name-based virtual hosts). I’m pretty sure Jamie has removed the feature from visibility in the next version, even.

If you don’t want FTP to be available for users that have a valid shell for FTP, you probably just want to stop the ProFTPd service.